Word: skies
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been exactly a year since a Soviet Su-15 jet fighter blasted Korean Air Lines Flight 007 out of the sky over Sakhalin Island, hurling 269 civilians to their deaths in the Sea of Japan. On the anniversary, the inevitable conspiracy theories are attracting worldwide, and often uncritical, attention, perhaps more than at any other time since the incident. Some of the allegations, contends Roy Godson, a U.S. intelligence expert at Washington's Georgetown University, are a result of "a massive, overt disinformation campaign" by the Soviet Union...
...night the mountain blazes cast an eerie red glow in the sky to the north of Helena, reminding residents of one of the region's worst forest fires, the Mann Gulch fire of 1949, which cost the lives of 13 fire fighters. "It looks like someone dropped the Bomb somewhere," said one resident. There were no precise estimates of the value of destroyed property and timber, but the damage totaled millions of dollars. Near Libby, in the northwest corner of the state, 16 barns and other farm buildings were consumed by a blaze along Houghton Creek in the Kootenai...
...they continued, the road grew more treacherous and the sky more turbulent. The trucks were abandoned, and the fugitives continued on foot. On the second night three children died of cold and exhaustion; the following dawn, as the weary procession reached the border, two pregnant women and a teen-age girl lay down and died. Nonetheless, the group was relatively fortunate: only a few hours after the villagers arrived safely in Pakistan, the first blizzard of the winter obscured the horizon. Dozens of people from neighboring villages who had left just one day later died in the driving snow...
...sky was clear, as a Wings West commuter plane carrying 15 people took off from the San Luis Obispo airport for San Francisco, some 200 miles to the north. Meanwhile, a flight instructor and his student were flying near by in a single-engine plane. The aircrafts met without warning at 3,000 ft. The flaming wreckage plummeted to the ground, killing all 17 aboard...
...Boeing 747 cargo plane swept in out of the night sky over the Andes. In accordance with a procedure established in earlier visits, it was guided to the far side of an international airport near Santiago, where passengers boarding commercial flights would not be able...